Don't call it a comeback: Trump's Tulsa rally was just another sad farce

[marmar]

Don't call it a comeback: Trump's Tulsa rally was just another sad farce
Richard Wolffe
Campaign officials should be ready for firings and fury after a pathetic event made worse by wretched attempted excuses

@richardwolffedc
Sat 20 Jun 2020 22.41 EDTLast modified on Sun 21 Jun 2020 02.18 EDT


(Guardian UK) There have been so many reasons to feel embarrassed about Donald Trump.

There was the time he paid off a porn star. There was the time he lied about the size of his inauguration crowd. The time he talked about the big water around Puerto Rico. The time he thought you could kill the coronavirus by injecting yourself with bleach.

But nothing truly comes close to the embarrassment of his so-called comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday.

It was so toe-curlingly cringeworthy, such a crushing humiliation. There are 80s pop bands who have enjoyed greater comebacks than Donald Trump.

To understand how much of his insides will always melt at the thought of that Tulsa rally, it’s worth quoting Trump’s fine words just before he boarded Marine One at the White House. .............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-crowd-empty-seats

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Now, here's the thing:

After Tulsa last night, what's the Republican National Convention going to look like in August?

[Laelth]

3. Indeed. What ARE they going to do?

No rallies. No convention. No nothing. Run attack ads, I suppose? The Trump campaign is now dead in the water.

-Laelth

[dalton99a]

2. Saturday is going to be amazing!

Parscale bragged about “over 1m ticket requests” earlier this week, a number he was so confident about that he built an outdoor event stage for Trump to talk to the massive overflow crowd. That was the day after Parscale tweeted about the “biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x. Saturday is going to be amazing!”

Brad, it was indeed amazing. You got punked by several hundred thousand TikTok users, organized by a grandmother in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Mary Jo Laupp was apparently so upset by the original date and place of Trump’s rally – the city where one of America’s worst racist massacres took place, in 1921 – that she asked people to sign up for the rally and not show up.

Laupp only joined TikTok earlier this year, but her call connected with thousands of K-Pop fans who are what Trump might call a silent majority.

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. Who is calling it a comeback?

Everyone is saying it was a humiliating flop and Dump was rolled by a bunch of kids.

[RussBLib]

5. Actual attendance 6,611

In a 19,000-seat arena.

And they were bragging, "ONE MILLION people signed up!"

How embarrassing!

Hahahahahahahaha

[Bev54]

6. It is the start of his farewell tour